There's Always Danny

Jean Ure is an assured writer for teenagers and in this second part of a trilogy she has the half-sisters, Kate and Vanessa, continuing their South London College Drama course and coping with the independence of their own flat. A large number of issues are raised - new ones like AIDS and older ones about relationships. It's all done competently and busily and Kate's education, formal and informal, apparently leaves her wiser and maturer. There's a belief in the healthiness of raising issues, of confronting and facing up to them by talking about them (and writing about them) and it's difficult to not to agree, in part anyway.